Heavy : an American memoir
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Waterville : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.
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9781432861421, 1432861425
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Bellwood Public Library - StacksLT B LAYOn Shelf
Berwyn Public Library - StacksLARGE PRINT 305.896 LAYOn Shelf
Glen Ellyn Public Library - Large Type305.896 LAYOn Shelf
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Published
Waterville : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.
Format
Large Print
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351 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
9781432861421, 1432861425

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In this stylish and complex memoir, Laymon, an English professor at the University of Mississippi and novelist (Long Division), presents bittersweet episodes of being a chubby outsider in 1980s Mississippi. He worships his long-suffering, resourceful grandmother, who loves the land her relatives farmed for generations and has resigned herself to the fact of commonplace bigotry. Laymon laces the memoir with clever, ironic observations about secrets, sexual trauma, self-deception, and pure terror related to his family, race, Mississippi, friends, and a country that refuses to love him and his community. He becomes an educator and acknowledges the inadequacies in his own education, noting that his teachers "weren't being paid right. I knew they were expected to do work they were unprepared to start or finish." He also writes about living among white people, including a family for whom his grandmother did the laundry: "It ain't about making white folk feel what you feel," he quotes his grandmother. "It's about not feeling what they want you to feel." His evolution is remarkable, from a "hard-headed" troubled teen to an intellectually curious youth battling a college suspension for a pilfering a library book to finally journeying to New York to become a much-admired professor and accomplished writer.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Laymon, K. (2019). Heavy: an American memoir (Large print edition.). Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Laymon, Kiese. 2019. Heavy: An American Memoir. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Laymon, Kiese. Heavy: An American Memoir Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.

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Laymon, Kiese. Heavy: An American Memoir Large print edition., Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.

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